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100	1	0	_aBucc, Philippe _eauthor
245	0	0	_aPolitical Ritual and Political Imaginaries in the Early Middle Ages
260			_c2001.
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520			_a“Political rituals,” a modern category, are (or should be) a problematic topic for the medievalist. The present article explores the early medieval purposes and functioning of the practices that scholars have identified as such. More fundamentally, it examines the role of authorial strategies in shaping the sources that they have used, too often ad litteram, to reconstruct “medieval rituality” and, with the help of social scientific models, to attribute a function to it. Finally, it underlines the gap between the early medieval understandings of such practices and the modern sociological or anthropological theories we often employ to read them.
690			_aWestern Europe
690			_apolitical ritual
690			_a4th-11th centuries
690			_aanthropology
690			_areligion
786	0		_nRevue historique | o 620 | 4 | 2001-12-01 | p. 843-883 | 0035-3264
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-historique-2001-4-page-843?lang=en
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